By manual therapy is meant the art of treating with hands, known since ancient times. It combines various systems of manual exposure to the human body in order to strengthen its health, diagnose and correct biomechanical diseases and disorders.
What is manual
therapy? This is a unique method of treating the musculoskeletal system without the use of equipment, a scalpel, or drugs, which can relieve pain, restore flexibility to the spine and freedom of movement of the affected joints.
Manual therapy is a way to restore and correct the body after injuries, surgery, injuries and pathological processes of the musculoskeletal system. Treatment methods help get rid of injuries, hernia of the spine, changes that affect the work of muscles, joints; diseases of internal organs, disorders in the respiratory system, endocrine and other pathologies.
The most popular manual therapy associated with impaired function of the motor system. Recently, these pathologies are quite common. Scoliosis, arthrosis, osteochondrosis and other diseases are often asymptomatic. Disorders in the spine, inextricably linked to the spinal cord, coordinating the work of internal organs, contribute to the development of other diseases. And they, in turn, provoke headaches, dizziness, frequent bronchitis, colds, gastritis, bowel problems, chronic fatigue and many other problems. Conventional drug therapy in such cases is ineffective, since it only heals the disease, but does not eliminate the symptoms and causes of its manifestation.
Manual therapy makes it possible to get rid of post-traumatic pains, headaches, dizziness caused by pathologies in the cervical spine, chest discomfort and other pathological manifestations of osteochondrosis. Manual medicine methods are successfully used in neonatology for birth injuries of the spine in newborns, in pediatrics, in gynecology for revealed disorders of the functionality of the pelvic organs. The use of its methods with the pathologies of the kidneys, urinary tract is quite effective.
In manual medicine, the following areas are distinguished:
- Manual therapy of joints and spine, consisting in dosed manual exposure. This method is most widely used in European countries and the USA.
- Visceral manual medicine, acting on the internal organs located in the abdominal and chest cavity. A similar method has become widespread in Southeast Asia.
- Craniopathy, or craniosacral medicine, consisting in manual exposure to the skull and bones of the pelvis. This direction is widely used in Africa, Asia, Australia.
Manual medicine is often included in a complex of hardware and conservative methods, but it is often used as a separate program. The effectiveness of therapy is always higher when it is alternated with courses of herbal medicine, reflexology, physiotherapy, massage and therapeutic exercises.
The art of healing with hands plus the patient’s desire to maintain proper physical shape can defeat the disease and maintain the results for a long time. The main thing is that all procedures should be performed not just by a healer or massage therapist, but by a highly qualified qualified
manual therapist .
Manual therapy, despite its versatility, has contraindications. These are chronic injuries, malignant neoplasms, disorders of the spinal cord, cerebral circulation, and mental disorders.
It is also worth knowing that a wider range of applications is distinguished by osteopathic techniques. Their tandem with manual therapy is quite effective. The quick mechanical effect of manual therapy helps to solve problems such as prolapse of joints, vertebrae, pinching of nerve endings, etc. And osteopathy helps to fix the correct position of tissues and organs and adapt them to the corresponding positive changes.